The Rp And Bhw

[Wiley]

Is it just my opinion that these books are not as good as they was 10 years ago? Back in the day so to speak you had top fanciers in there area writing articles, and articles was what they was not just a list of results, I think nowadays I buy it out of habit but the reading material has gone, and the price has increased, I used to write myself and understand how hard it is to write something every week this is where I take my hat of to Bert Braspenning who's been penning quality articles for years.

[andy Burgess]

Is it just my opinion that these books are not as good as they was 10 years ago? Back in the day so to speak you had top fanciers in there area writing articles, and articles was what they was not just a list of results, I think nowadays I buy it out of habit but the reading material has gone, and the price has increased, I used to write myself and understand how hard it is to write something every week this is where I take my hat of to Bert Braspenning who's been penning quality articles for years.

nostalgic views i think , what about the "glossy" pictorial , good reports then too. i buy the B.H.W. now and its club results etc i look for .when i was a boy most newsagents had copies of the Racing Pigeon on the shelf for you to buy ,not pre - ordered

[Wiley]

Andy the pictorial are articles that have been previously published in the RP, they are mainly Keith Motts articles, I'm in no way saying I don't like Keiths articles because I find them good. I miss the days when you'd pick up the books and find articles by Lycett, Bigwood, Yates, Gonsalves, Cooper, Allen, Staddon ect I loved reading them and articles of a similar nature. I read results up and down the country but get bored by reading through pages and pages especially when you can get most results nowadays on the Internet, if it is t results it is adverts that fill the books.

[andy Burgess]

a sign of the times then .

[Rooster J. Cogburn]

I used to look forward to getting the Homing World through the door each week,but after the subscription ran out the last time I never bothered renewing it.

 

Most of the things in it I'd read find their way on to the internet and I was fed up with some of adverts.

 

Agree with Ryan on Berty .His column was one of the first I'd read after the initial flick though

[geordie1234]

Stop buying it myself

[frank-123]

Thanks just remembered my subscription is up for the bhw

[THE FIFER]

I think the RP has improved the last year

[Wiley]

I think the RP has improved the last year

 

Layout and design I agree Archie, but in my opinion not content wise

[THE FIFER]

Layout and design I agree Archie, but in my opinion not content wise

 

agree,also too many scribes writing for both papers and just posting the same article in both

[Guest stb-]

Is it just my opinion that these books are not as good as they was 10 years ago? Back in the day so to speak you had top fanciers in there area writing articles, and articles was what they was not just a list of results, I think nowadays I buy it out of habit but the reading material has gone, and the price has increased, I used to write myself and understand how hard it is to write something every week this is where I take my hat of to Bert Braspenning who's been penning quality articles for years.

dont buy either they are garbage now booth of them , have went down hill for years ,

 

not much of interest any more

 

Layout and design I agree Archie, but in my opinion not content wise

last time i bought an r p there wasnt many pages to hold any content anyway was shocked how thin it was

[Beanz]

I think the problem is whats in the RP is repeated in the BHW and vice versa, Used to write for them myself but don't have the time now.

 

 

Paul

[Rooster J. Cogburn]

Think part of the problem is highlighted in this thread.Two able scribes have posted but are now in a position where they can't contribute to the magazine's content

 

Suppose the editors can only work with the material they are given??